Without doubt, the year 2022 will go down as one of the turbulent years for Nigerians, after the excruciating civil war from 1967 to 1970. Nigerians have been enduring economic, security, food security, social, political, and ethno-religious challenges in recent years. It’s sad that despite the President Muhammadu Buhari’s acclaimed good intentions towards the country, his indecisive actions on some Read More
The presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his Labour Party counterpart, Mr Peter Obi and the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) were guests at the interactive section organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). CAN declared that it has neither endorsed any presidential candidate nor changed its earlier position on Muslim-Muslim ticket. The Read More
A whopping +600 billion (USD) worth of food is lost yearly during and/or post harvest accordingto Mckinsey and Company. As alarming as this number sounds, it will keep trending upward ifnothing is done immediately, factoring recent global misfortunes like the covid19 pandemic, thewar in Ukraine and adverse effects of climate change. Most of this loss occurs upstream of thevalue chain Read More
Food insecurity is when someone doesn’t have regular access to enough nutritious food. It’s caused when food either isn’t available or it isn’t affordable. Severe food insecurity means a person at times has not eaten for days, leading to extreme and severe hunger. For children, the result of food insecurity is devastating. It leads to severe weight loss, obesity, stunted Read More
Elections play an important role in deepening democracy in many parts of the world because they allow the governed to choose who governs them. However, an election is more than just an event; it is a process involving a variety of activities and stakeholders. One of these essential activities is campaigning. There is no doubt that the party to beat Read More
Ruth Ede has beaten other contestants to emerge as second runner-up in an international food safety challenge held in Denmark, Wednesday. Ede, who is a fellow of the Ugwumba Leadership Center, established by former Imo State governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu, had earlier won the Nigerian version of the EatSafe Innovation Challenge. She leads Scratop, a company that utilises and converts Read More
This newspaper at the weekend published a disturbing exclusive report on the quantum damage wrecked by floods across the country. The report, which is based on thorough nationwide survey, indicated that as a result of torrential rainfall in recent weeks, with no signs of slowing down, some states, especially those along the courses of Rivers Niger and Benue, are currently Read More
This newspaper at the weekend published a disturbing exclusive report on the quantum damage wrecked by floods across the country. The report, which is based on thorough nationwide survey, indicated that as a result of torrential rainfall in recent weeks, with no signs of slowing down, some states, especially those along the courses of Rivers Niger and Benue, are currently Read More
The United States President, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has announced over $2.9 billion in new assistance from the U.S. Government to address global food insecurity. Biden made the announcement while addressing the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The announcement builds on the $6.9 billion in U.S. government assistance to support global food security already committed this year. Read More
Globally, food security has become an issue that raises concern especially in recent times with its attendant consequences in the form of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, inflation. Disturbing report Recently, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said about 19. 4 million people would face food insecurity across Nigeria between June and August, Read More
Stakeholders on Friday in Abuja said the issue of food safety was a collaborative effort which is everyone’s responsibility and business. A cross section of stakeholders spoke on the sidelines of the 2022 National Food Safety Summit in Abuja. The event held at the Ministry of Environment was powered by RCL City Centre in collaboration with National Industrial Safety Council Read More
A sharp rise in the prices of beans and peanut oil is making Nigeria’s favorite breakfast snack, popularly referred to as akara unaffordable for the country’s poor. The cost of beans, the main ingredient in akara — fried snacks that are sold all over Africa’s most populous nation– jumped 32 per cent in May compared with a year earlier, almost Read More
Nigeria’s rising fiscal deficit could hit 6.1 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. This was contained in the latest Staff Article Consultation report released in Washington on Thursday. A fiscal deficit is a condition when the expenditure of the government exceeds its revenue in a year. IMF said the escalating food Read More
The Assistant Managing Director of Green Agriculture West Africa Ltd.(GAWAL) Mr. Wang Xuemin, has reiterated the commitment of his company towards food security in Nigeria through the introduction of high quality, high yielding rice seed in Nigeria. Mr. Xuemin, stated this at the company’s demonstration farm in Usuma, Bwari Area Council of Abuja while conducting top government officials and journalists Read More
As presented in the first part of this article, the earth’s surface area is 71% covered by oceanic water. The water is mainly being used for navigation, transport, and other economic and sporting activities. Today, the humanity has started using the 71 percent of the earth surface occupied by ocean for farming activities. This becomes necessary because of the environmental Read More
The federal government through the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has inaugurated five National Steering Committees for donor funded projects being implemented under the Ministry to enhance food security, job creation, rural development and economic diversification. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony held at the Minister’s conference room in Abuja recently, the Minister stated that the Read More
With the Russia’s special military operation and conflict in Ukraine, there has been concerns of possible food shortage, likely to exacerbate the crises of hunger and starvation already made worst by the rising tide of insecurity that has considerably prevented farmers from optimizing their productivity. The looming food crisis or shortage, now set to be aggravated by the conflict in Read More
The quest for Nigeria towards self-sufficiency and food security requires deliberate efforts being put in place to achieve this. This range from getting the best from forest resources, maximising the raining season, and practising good irrigation system, among other suggestions. On forest resources, the experts have called for the formulation of pragmatic policies to guarantee continuous production to meet with Read More
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has insisted that Africa must make technology the focal point of its agricultural development as the continent fights to avert hunger. Africa presently faces the huge challenge of feeding it’s over one billion people in order to ensure food and nutritional security. Addressing press after Read More
The Cadre Harmonise, (CH), results released, on Friday, for first quarter of the year 2022 indicated that about 19.4 million people including 416,000 IDPs in 21 states and FCT in Nigeria are expected to be in crisis or worst between June and August. The CH is a compilation of the food security analysis by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Read More
Food security: Developing action plan for residue reduction in livestock products. Over the years, the federal government has been working on reducing drug residue in agricultural produce that are exported from Nigeria. In this piece, JOHN OBA, reports on developing a National Residues Monitoring Plan for honey and other livestock products. In the past couple of years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Read More
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called on the media to project the third biennial review accountability process instituted to help measure progress of the comprehensive African Agriculture Development programme implementation in the continent. The International Project Manager, Public Finance for Agriculture, AAN, Constance Okeke said it became necessary as the media needs to lead the drive to boost agriculture by putting Read More
The prices of food reached a 10-year high in 2021, rising by an average of 28 per cent, the highest average level since 2011. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in its Food Price Index, disclosed that despite a slight decline in December 2021, there was still an increase of 23.1 per cent in points recorded in December 2020. Read More
The federal government has commissioned a 1.8 million cubic metres storage capacity Okuta Dam in Baruten local government area of Kwara state to feed at least 100 hectares of irrigation farm lands. The Minister of Agriculture, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, disclosed this at the commissioning of the dam, a project office and some other completed projects in Ilorin, which ran from Read More
Piqued by the grueling security challenges and food crisis in 2021, the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to decisively tackle Boko Haram/ISWAP menace as well as take actions that will guarantee food security for Nigerians. The Forum, in a New Year message signed by its National President, Dr Pogu Bitrus, Sunday, said year 2022 “is full Read More
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